Which queen of England attended a number of William Shakespeare’s play ?

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1. Many of William Shakespeare’s plays were performed at what theater in Elizabethan England ?

   A. “The Curtain”
   B. “The Globe”
   C. “The Rose”
   D. “The Anchor”

2. The character of Falstaff is important in which play(s) by William Shakespeare ?

   A. “Henry IV, Part I”
   B. “Henry IV, Part II”
   C. “Titus Andronicus”
   D. All of the above

3. Which one of the following terms is often called for the England’s national poet, William Shakespeare ?

   A. Bard of London
   B. Bard of Avon
   C. Master Dramatist
   D. Supreme Poet

4. The fine arts flourished in Elizabethan England. William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, and Edmund Spenser were some of the more famous playwrights and poets of the time. Drama, music, songs, and art were popular with noblemen and commoners alike. Exploring certain topics, however, was considered taboo in any art form. What was a strictly forbidden subject ?

   A. Sexuality
   B. Criticism of the queen
   C. Murder
   D. Witchcraft

5. Who was the Queen of England throughout much of Shakespeare’s early life?

   A. Queen Elizabeth
   B. Queen Victoria
   C. Queen Anne
   D. Queen Gertrude

6. In “Characters of Shakespeare’s Plays”, what does William Hazlitt mean when he states the following: “We do not like to see our author’s plays acted, and least of all, ’Hamlet’. There is no play that suffers so much in being transferred to the stage” ?

   A. Hamlet cannot be staged properly because of the complexity of the play’s use of language.
   B. Hamlet is not relevant to the Romantic age.
   C. The role of Hamlet cannot be properly played by any actor.
   D. Hamlet is a work that was written to be read, not performed.

7. The earliest play written by Shakespeare according to Oxford Shakespeare 1988 is______________?

   A. The Taming of the Shrew
   B. As you Like it
   C. Two Gentlemen of Verona
   D. Titus Andronicus

8. Which of Shakespeare’s play is his only play that has never been adopted for film or Television ?

   A. Taming of the Shrew
   B. The two Noble Kinsmen
   C. Troilus and Cressida
   D. Cymbeline

9. One purpose of LITERARY CRITICISM is described below: “The historical approach, for instance, might be helpful in addressing a problem in Thomas Otway’s play Venice Preserv’d. Why are the conspirators, despite the horrible, bloody details of their obviously brutish plan, portrayed in a sympathetic light? If we look at the author and his time, we see that he was a Tory whose play was performed in the wake of the Popish Plot and the Exclusion Bill Crisis, and that there are obvious similarities between the Conspiracy in the play and the Popish Plot in history. The Tories would never approve of the bloody Popish Plot, but they nonetheless sympathized with the plotters for the way they were abused by the Tory enemy, the Whigs. Thus it makes sense for Otway to condemn the conspiracy itself in Vencie Preserv’d without condemning the conspirators themselves.” What purpose does this prescribe to ?

   A. To help resolve a question, problem, or difficulty in the readin
   B. To help decide which is the better of two conflicting readings.
   C. To enable to form judgments about literature.
   D. All of the above answers are correct.

10. Which of the following plays by William Shakespeare is a comedy ?

    A. “Romeo and Juliet”
    B. “Hamlet”
    C. “Much Ado about Nothing”
    D. “Henry IV, Part I”